· Private foundation
Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $3,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $3,100 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,100 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| SIMPSON COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $1,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $742 |
| WALDORF COLLEGE | $600 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $600 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $600 |
| INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCENTRAL COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +35%
- IHINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +5%
- SCSimpson College2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Moore Scholarship Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · The Van Buren Foundation Inc · The Eagle Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pensacola Christian College Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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